Nottingham Council House Ballroom 26/2/9

Plexus Media were delighted to attend Connected Nottingham’s celebrate a Connected Nottingham event today. Not sure what to expect we were surprised at the quantity and diversity of the flagship project being undertaken in the city.

The opening address from Jane Todd, Chief Executive of Nottingham City Council, was concerned with Proud. Proud of the city, proud of the city’s achievements, proud of the city’s standing in the UK, proud of the city’s growing stature in Europe and further.

We were then treated to a whistle stop tour of some of the reasons why Nottingham should have hope in these times of recession.

Cisco explained their vision for connected networks. Queens Medical Centre explained how their Medical Grade Network made sense in a large busy hospital. Cisco returned to tell us that QMC was to be a European flagship model for connected networks for a conference of nation state health ministers to be held in Barcelona in 2010.  Nottingham Trent University told us all about their WiMax Forest project (see more about this here), BioCity explained how Nottingham’s Science City status is helping to achieve one in five jobs within the city being in the science sector, and finally but in no way least, GameCity told us that no one from the States or Japan had any problem with Nottingham and we should get better at telling people in the UK what we are up to as a city.

We were also told to play more.

To find out more about Connected Nottingham please visit www.connectednottingham.org.uk